| | 50 | ==== About the Sahana Software Foundation ==== |
| | 51 | The Mission of the Sahana Software Foundation is to help alleviate human suffering by giving emergency managers, disaster response professionals and communities access to the information that they need to better prepare for and respond to disasters through the development and promotion of free and open source software and open standards. |
| | 52 | Our Vision is to build and sustain a global open and collaborative community of contributors to information and communications technologies for disaster management, in order to: |
| | 53 | * Support the needs of Sahana customers through promoting and developing innovative open source solutions for disaster information management |
| | 54 | * Support the adoption of open standards for data exchange between information systems to manage disaster data. |
| | 55 | The Sahana Software Foundation was established in 2009 as a non-profit organization to serve the needs and requirements of a diverse group of customers: |
| | 56 | * Government agencies and jurisdictions at the national, provincial or state, and local levels |
| | 57 | * UN Agencies, international and local charitable organizations (NGOs) |
| | 58 | * Communities & disaster victims |
| | 59 | * Technology companies & software developers |
